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Summary: In this free instructional video clip series, our expert will discuss the basic first steps for someone learning to do video editing. In this lesson, learn about understanding the viewer and the target audience.
Paul Volniansky, born (1972) in St Petersburg into family of artists and intellectuals.
He has a BA in film direction from the St Petersburg University of Art and Culture –...read more
"Each movie it is important to each people who are directing it so if it is a movie about football game it is more for people who like to watch football games. If it is about the birthday of our child we want to show it to family and friends. So in each case we have to chose the best shots that are matching our ideas and to correct them if there are not video taped well, although this we could also do from editing. So there is correcting editing, there is editing that we choose, there is editing that is symbolic, that brings you some meaning, a symbol. Let's suppose that we are video taping our children's performance at school and it was about 3 hours. But you want to shorten the movie. This is also called editing. The most important rule in editing is that there are rules, but you can break them. "
eHow Article: Understanding the Viewer & Target Audience : Basics of Video Editing